A report on Xinjiang, Uyghur genocide and Qiemo County

Detainees listening to speeches in a camp in Lop County, Xinjiang, April 2017

Dzungaria (Red) and the Tarim Basin or Altishahr (Blue)

A Uyghur man from Kashgar, a city in Xinjiang, China.

Northern Xinjiang (Junggar Basin) (Yellow), Eastern Xinjiang- Turpan Depression (Turpan Prefecture and Hami Prefecture) (Red) and Altishahr/the Tarim Basin (Blue)

Present day map of Xinjiang and its internal and external borders

The Tarim Basin in the 3rd century CE, showing the Indo-European oasis kingdoms of Kašgar (Kashgar) [violet], Kotan/Hutan [green], Krążania (Krořän/Loulan/Shanshan) [pink], Kuša (Kucha/Ququa) [orange], Ārśi (Agni/Yanqui/Karaxahr) [olive] and Yarkoto/Guśi (Jushi/Turfan) [blue]. Ziemo (Quiemo) lies in the western part of Krořän/Loulan bordering Zhangzhung (Tibet) to the south, and which was since the 1st century CE known under its Chinese name Shanshan.

Physical map showing the separation of Dzungaria and the Tarim Basin (Altishahr) by the Tien Shan Mountains

Xinjiang police job advertisements by year

A view from the space of an alluvial fan in the foothills of the Altyn-Tagh in the western part of the county (37.44861°N, 84.28139°W)

Map of Han Dynasty in 2 CE. Light blue is the Tarim Basin protectorate.

Number of "re-education" related government procurement bids in Xinjiang

Map of Qiemo (labeled as Ch'ieh-mo) and surrounding area (1975)

Old Uyghur/Yugur art from the Bezeklik murals

Xi Jinping featured on a propaganda billboard in Kashgar in 2018

Map including Qiemo (labeled as QIEMO (CH'IEH-MO)) and surrounding region (DMA, 1980){{efn|From map: "The representation of international boundaries is not necessarily authoritative."}}

Map including Qarqan (labeled as CH'IEH-MO (CHERCHEN) (CH'E-ERH-CH'ENG)) (USATC, 1971)

A Sogdian man on a Bactrian camel. Sancai ceramic statuette, Tang dynasty

Entrance to a school in Turpan, a Uyghur-majority city in Xinjiang, in 2018. The sign at the gate, written in Chinese, reads: "[You are] entering the school grounds. Please speak Guoyu ["the national language", i.e. Mandarin Chinese]"

Mongol states from the 14th to the 17th centuries: the Northern Yuan dynasty, Four Oirat, Moghulistan and Kara Del

The Dzungar–Qing Wars, between the Qing Dynasty and the Dzungar Khanate

A Uyghur woman wearing a hijab in Xinjiang

The Battle of Oroi-Jalatu in 1756, between the Manchu and Oirat armies

Mihrigul Tursun, a former detainee of the Xinjiang internment camps

Scene from the 1828 Qing campaign against rebels in Altishahr

Protesters at the United Nations with the Flag of East Turkestan

Pro-Uyghur protest in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 5 February 2011

19th-century Khotan Uyghurs in Yettishar

Xinjiang boycott advert on NYU's campus in New York, NY "Boycott Xinjiang Genocide Products! 抵制新疆种族灭绝产品！ Also don't attack our Chinese neighbors. Just say no to xenophobia and racism!"

Uyghur human rights demonstration protest near the White House, on September 25, 2015

Governor Sheng Shicai ruled from 1933 to 1944.

The Soviet-backed Second East Turkestan Republic encompassed Xinjiang's Ili, Tarbagatay and Altay districts.

Black Irtysh river in Burqin County is a famous spot for sightseeing.

Nur Bekri, Chairman of the Xinjiang Government between 2007 and 2015

The distribution map of Xinjiang's GDP per person (2011)

Ürümqi is a major industrial center within Xinjiang.

This flag (Kök Bayraq) has become a symbol of the East Turkestan independence movement.

"Heroic Gesture of Bodhisattvathe Bodhisattva", example of 6th-7th-century terracotta Greco-Buddhist art (local populations were Buddhist) from Tumxuk, Xinjiang

Sogdian donors to the Buddha, 8th century fresco (with detail), Bezeklik, Eastern Tarim Basin

People engaging in snow sports by a statue of bodhisattva Guanyin in Wujiaqu

Temple of the Great Buddha in Midong, Ürümqi

Taoist Temple of Fortune and Longevity at the Heavenly Lake of Tianshan in Fukang, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture

Id Kah mosque in Kashgar, largest mosque in China

Erkin Tuniyaz, the incumbent Chairman of the Xinjiang Government

The Chinese government has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang that is often characterized as genocide.

- Uyghur genocide

Qiemo County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Qarqan County (Uyghur: چەرچەن ناھىيىسى; ), is a county under the administration of the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south.

- Qiemo County

These conflicts prompted the Chinese government to commit a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in the province that is often characterized as genocide.

- Xinjiang

In August 2014, local authorities in Cherchen County (Qiemo County) announced, "Incentive Measures Encouraging Uighur-Chinese Intermarriage," including a 10,000 CNY (1,450 USD) cash reward per annum for the first five years to such intermarried couples as well as preferential treatment in employment and housing plus free education for the couples, their parents and offspring.

- Qiemo County

Local states such as Shule, Yutian, Guizi and Qiemo controlled the western region, while the central region around Turpan was controlled by Gaochang, remnants of a state (Northern Liang) that once ruled part of what is now Gansu province in northwestern China.

- Xinjiang

In August 2014, local authorities in Cherchen County (Qiemo County) announced, "Incentive Measures Encouraging Uighur-Chinese Intermarriage," including a 10,000 CNY (US$1,450) cash reward per annum for the first five years to such intermarried couples as well as preferential treatment in employment and housing plus free education for the couples, their parents and offspring.

- Uyghur genocide

A report on Xinjiang, Uyghur genocide and Qiemo County

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